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White House urges developers to dump C and C++ (www.infoworld.com)

submitted 9 months ago by L4s to c/technology

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White House urges developers to dump C and C++::Biden administration calls for developers to embrace memory-safe programing languages and move away from those that cause buffer overflows and other memory access vulnerabilities.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I think we should politicize code. It seems so unfettered by politics so far while so many other things are nicely split amongst party lines. Seems like maybe the Republicans should embrace C and the democrats can have python or something.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

Republicans get C, Java, Lua, and C++; Democrats get Ada, Rust, C#, and Python; Libertarians get Zig, TCL, Julia, and Ocaml for some reason.

[–] WelcomeBear 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Ruby is just one guy, Vermin Supreme

[–] TORFdot0 11 points 9 months ago

Ruby-off-the-rails

[–] yuriy 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Vermin Supreme still stands by his pony plan doesn’t he? You KNOW he’s out here using FiM++

[–] WelcomeBear 2 points 9 months ago

I stand corrected!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I thought this is a tech space, but you've just made a lot of people Republicans.

One would also expect Ada to be Republican.

And can libertarians please have Common Lisp?

[–] Sylvartas 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ada could never be republican, on the basis that it's named after a british woman scientist. I don't think she's on record as a feminist, but that's about the only thing that would make her "worse" in their eyes

Also why do the democrats only get languages for people who don't care about performances ? /s ^(it's just a prank bro)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I was thinking about the association of the Ada language with defense stuff, and also her being Byron's daughter, which is more specific than being British, I'm not sure she'd complain about associations with Republicanism, but then this can also be interpreted in favor of libertarians.

No, the question is valid about weird selection of languages for Democrats. I think what they meant is that separation of various issues between parties is orthogonal to any sane logic, so we should do this with programming languages too.

Also I want to know who gets Erlang.

[–] mods_are_assholes 3 points 9 months ago

haha as if repugnicunts code...

[–] Mango 2 points 9 months ago

Why do Republicans get the good stuff?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Can I both upvote and downvote you? Seems most appropriate